Common Beliefs About the Rural Elderly: What Do National Data Tell Us?

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• Description:
  National data from various sources are presented to support or debunk 10 commonly held beliefs about the elderly living in rural America. Topics include: health, income, housing, social networks, population size and distribution, and access to care. Most comparisons are between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan data.
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Health Surveys Public Health Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  health, income, housing, social networks, population size and distribution, access to care, metropolitan, nonmetropolitan
• Source:
  Other NCHS Survey or Data System
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  81 pdf pages
• Volume:
  3
• Issue:
  28
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d08c69e5e16b02579730b62209cccaec11b3664ca25e9de8d1c000aa88bb08f87f838de32771873ada89612a913c045fbb1a8685a39bf2377edf3bfc88794586
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11202/cdc_11202_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.53 MB ]